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Built for dental practices & clinics

The front desk is with a patient. The phone's still ringing.

A new patient calling to book is worth years of visits — and they'll try the next practice if you don't pick up. SimpleCX answers every caller, offers text-to-book, and sorts new patients, existing patients and billing before anyone reaches the desk.

Every missed call is a customer who called someone else.

The problem

Your most valuable calls arrive at your busiest moments

The front desk can only hold one conversation at a time, and the phone doesn't wait its turn. A new-patient call that hits voicemail is a lifetime of appointments booked somewhere else.

27%
of calls to dental practices and clinics go unanswered
New patients
The highest-value calls you get — and the least forgiving of a voicemail
After hours
People book their dentist in the evening, long after the desk goes home

What should happen instead

Start with the experience you want for every caller

Tell SimpleCX what should happen when a new patient calls to book while your desk is mid-checkout. It designs exactly that — no phone tree to build.

Never miss a new-patient call

The call you most want is always answered — greeted, captured and moved toward a booking, even when the desk is with someone.

Text-to-book

Patients can book and confirm by text — the way most people would rather do it — without tying up a person at the front desk.

After-hours message and callback

Evening and weekend callers are greeted, their reason captured, and a callback scheduled — so nobody who wanted an appointment slips away overnight.

Route new, existing and billing

A prospective patient, a schedule change and an insurance question each go where they belong — the desk isn't buried under calls it doesn't need to take.

Every call written up for you

Who called, why, and what they need next — summarized so the desk picks up the thread without asking twice.

?Know your call patterns — just ask

"How many new-patient calls did we miss last week?" Ask in plain words and see the picture from your own account.

How it works

From an overwhelmed front desk to covered — in about five minutes

You talk

Describe your practice

"Two-dentist practice, one person at the desk — we miss calls at lunch and in the evenings." That's the brief.

It builds

See it designed

New-patient routing, text-to-book, after-hours callbacks — laid out for you to approve before it goes live.

You go live

Book every patient

New patients are captured and booked, existing patients and billing routed — around the clock.

You ask

Run it by asking

"How many bookings came in by text?" — answered from your own account, with a chart.

Questions

Dental practice questions, answered

Can patients actually book by text?

Yes. Patients can request and confirm appointments by text — the way most people already prefer — so booking doesn't depend on someone at the desk being free to answer the phone.

What happens to calls after we close?

Evening and weekend callers are greeted, their reason captured, and a callback scheduled for the next open slot — so a patient who wanted to book at 8pm is still your patient when the desk opens.

Can new-patient calls be handled differently from existing ones?

Yes. You describe how your practice works, and SimpleCX sorts new patients, existing patients and billing questions to the right place — so your highest-value calls get the attention they deserve.

Does it support our HIPAA obligations?

SimpleCX supports your HIPAA obligations, with data encrypted in transit and at rest and kept in the storage you choose. Describe your practice during setup and it's designed with that handling in mind.

Do we need new phones or IT help to set this up?

No. You describe your practice in plain words and approve the design. The configurator is free, pricing is a flat per-seat rate with no minimums and no setup fee, month-to-month — long-distance and AI usage are billed only as you use them.

Ready when you are

Stop sending new patients to the practice down the street

Describe your practice and see your line designed in about five minutes. Free to try, no card, no lock-in.